Weekly Photo Challenge: Love…

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” Mahatma Gandhi

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love Notes & Wishes

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

Where love is, there God is also.
Love wrestles with the world as with itself, and
ultimately gains a mastery over all other feelings
Wherever there are jars,
Wherever you are confronted with an opponent,
Conquer him with love. Mahatma Gandhi

Love covers a wide spectrum of feelings, ideas, and beliefs… It is not so easy to pin down to a few visual examples and that’s not bad because it means we will see hundreds of different interpretations of love for this challenge. Displayed in the first photo above are love notes and wishes people wrote and hung up at a temple in Japan. You could write a prayer, poem, your desire for love on the heart shaped card, and the blessings were shared as others came with hopes for same. Flowers are also a symbol of love…and I added the popular Tennyson quote to the collage. May we all find love in our hearts first.

When the sweet glance of my true love caught my eyes,
Like alchemy, it transformed my copper-like soul.
I searched for Him with a thousand hands,
He stretched out His arms and clutched my feet. Rumi

Pink is associated with love for all sorts of reasons (family, purity)but more so because it’s a delicate, warm shade that adds cheer to any space. As Valentine’s Day approaches, many will be in line to order and/or receive chocolates and roses; classic symbols of valentine’s day love… Hope you get some too.

Watching other lifeforms in nature nurture each other like loving humans do is heartwarming… The deer family above was hanging out in my backyard and it was a delight to watch. What symbols of love did you share? More below!

“The lover’s cause is separate from all other causes, Love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries.” Rumi

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love… A collage of love interests

Fall in love in such a way that it frees you
from any connecting. Love is the soul’s
light, the taste of morning, no me, no
we, no claim of being.

These words are the smoke the fire gives off as it
absolves its defects, as eyes in silence,
tears, face. Love cannot be said. Rumi

I was told that the words written on that huge love sign were lucky words… And had to do with having a happy marriage. People at the temple mentioned in the first picture on this post, walked by this sign as they wrote and hung up their love wishes… May you enjoy good fortune for seeing this too.

The heart collage/word cloud above is created at tagxedo.com and it shows all the different topics I’ve written about, and a typical range of what we all love; from family to skills and things we do… Perfect for this challenge. Go create one for your blog. I hope you enjoyed your visit. Thank you! Have a great weekend and thanks again for stopping by!

*Please bear with me as I continue to catch up on reading and commenting on your blogs. Thank you all for your patience!

This post was inspired by a prompt from WP Daily Post: Weekly Photo Challenge: LoveAmaze us with your own interpretation of LOVE. This photo is a testament to other people’s ideas of love: affixing a lock to a bridge in Paris with their love’s name and other information. In a new post specifically created for this challenge, share a picture which means LOVE to you!

My fellow bloggers were equally creative with their selections. I added some from Zemanta and a few from WP Daily Post below. Check out how others interpreted the theme – Love – also see below. ***

Positive Motivation Tip: Love pulls people together and holds us all up… It starts with us and in our hearts. Love abundantly! Happy January! Share your gifts!

Gandhi’s quote just struck me as completely different from the usual quotes I read on love. You know, the heady stuff…and it does take courage to truly love others unconditionally. I added Rumi because he is the ecstatic poet of love. TY! 🙂

I love the idea of abundant love… not so easy to do either but worth battling with our own reservations to achieve it. 🙂 TY! And I apologize for being so behind on blog visits… I need a virtual assistant! I’m slowly catching up. My kids will be back in college soon and I’ll have a bit more time to up the ante on catching up. Thanks all! 🙂

Great post for a very broad challenge! I especially like the Gandhi quotes. What do you think about the ‘jars’? I am picturing a pantry full of preserves…food= nuturing=love. But perhaps that’s not what he meant.

Hello Elisabeth ! To me heart is a beautiful love symbol ! One day a friend’ s daughter asked her : mummy what is love ? My friend answered ” love makes the heart beat, so it helps us to live”!best regards from France

I loved the collection of quotes, and your photos do the words justice. I have had some wonderful examples in my life of very loving women. In particular my grandmothers and one of my aunts…not that others weren’t loving, but these women knew how to communicate it. And I often hear their voices in my memory as they forgave readily, accepted easily, nurtured constantly, and communicated approval without judgment. That is love to me. 🙂

This is such a wonderful post on Love 🙂 Love is rather hard to define. It’s vast, both as a subject matter and into our hearts… It can take many forms and can create and destroy. In any case, it’s omnipresent. Essential.

Beautiful post as always. This words were my favorite which I think sums up why love exist, “Where love is, there God is also.” Wonderful pictures with words that soothes the heart. Have a great weekend.